Chocolate 'Cheese'cake

Once again, I've neglected this poor little blog in favour of numerous school assignments threatening to squish me under their weight. T...

SWEET TEMPTATIONS!

Take away some of the holiday stress and pick up all your baking goodies ready to be served when company arrives ( or when you need your own...

TRUE LANARK COUNTY CREATIONS

Ian makes his porcelain and stoneware pots and bowls in his Lanark Highlands workshop. Glazed with material from Lanark County: Tatlock marb...

100% MADE IN CANADA, EH!

Springdale Farms is a second generation maple sugar bush in Lanark that has been producing maple sugar products for over 30 years. At the Va...

The Great Oban Fireworks Disaster of 2011

The good people of Oban assembled for a public fireworks display on 4 November 2011. Unfortunately, a technical fault meant that all the fir...

With Courage And Music

A common cause unites people with differences. It might be a wrong most people feel needs to be made right.  It's a time when barriers f...

Radio dramatisation of The Once and Future King

One of my favourite writers - and one of the most underrated prose stylists in the langauge - is T.H. White. BBC Radio is broadcasting a six...

Theresa May joins the Stasi

#3330448 / gettyimages.com Imagine a country where the citizenry are denied the most modern means of communication, Why? Because allowing t...

Ebola: Get the facts

Over the past few months, the Ebola virus has been a top news story. It’s only natural to be concerned. The best action you can take is to ...